Disk Drive

Hi All,

Basiclly, I have an IDE cable going from the motherboard to a DVD Drive and
a CD Drive sharing the same cable.

However, the computer is able to detect the DVD Drive in "My Computer" but
it's unable to detect the CD Drive.

If I tell the comptuer to eject the DVD Drive, both Drives eject, it seems
that the computer knows that both drives ar ethere, it's just that Vista
doesn't seem to know the CD Drive is there,

Please can anyone help,

Thanks,

Porthos.

"Porthos" <> wrote in message
news:6BB2A743-D007-4D01-8E5E-...
> Hi All,
>
> Basiclly, I have an IDE cable going from the motherboard to a DVD Drive
> and
> a CD Drive sharing the same cable.
>
> However, the computer is able to detect the DVD Drive in "My Computer" but
> it's unable to detect the CD Drive.
>
> If I tell the comptuer to eject the DVD Drive, both Drives eject, it seems
> that the computer knows that both drives ar ethere, it's just that Vista
> doesn't seem to know the CD Drive is there,
>
> Please can anyone help,
>
> Thanks,
>
> Porthos.

Porthos, on the back of each drive is a jumper. Make sure that only one of
the drives is set to master, and then the other drive is set to slave.


Wayne

Hi Wayne,

Perfect Answer, turns out that both drives were set to Master, Thank you
very much



From Porthos.

"Wayne Wastier" wrote:

>
> "Porthos" <> wrote in message
> news:6BB2A743-D007-4D01-8E5E-...
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Basiclly, I have an IDE cable going from the motherboard to a DVD Drive
> > and
> > a CD Drive sharing the same cable.
> >
> > However, the computer is able to detect the DVD Drive in "My Computer" but
> > it's unable to detect the CD Drive.
> >
> > If I tell the comptuer to eject the DVD Drive, both Drives eject, it seems
> > that the computer knows that both drives ar ethere, it's just that Vista
> > doesn't seem to know the CD Drive is there,
> >
> > Please can anyone help,
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Porthos.
>
> Porthos, on the back of each drive is a jumper. Make sure that only one of
> the drives is set to master, and then the other drive is set to slave.
>
>
> Wayne
>
>
>